Winnipeg Jets draft history
204 picks since 1999 · 30 first-round picks
Who have the Jets drafted?
The Winnipeg Jets have made 204 draft picks since 1999, 30 of them in the first round. The best of them: Connor Hellebuyck, 130th overall in 2012, with 4 league awards. Their latest first-round pick is Viggo Bjorck, 8th overall in 2026.
First-round picksBy roundEvery pick by year
Jets first-round picks
| Draft | Pick | Player | Pos | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | Viggo Bjorck | C | 4 games |
| 2025 | 28 | Sascha Boumedienne | — | |
| 2023 | 18 | Colby Barlow | LW | — |
| 2022 | 14 | Rutger McGroartyMichigan | RW | 32 games |
| 2022 | 30 | Brad Lambert | C | 35 games |
| 2021 | 18 | Chaz Lucius | — | |
| 2020 | 10 | Cole Perfetti | C | 294 games |
| 2019 | 20 | Ville Heinola | D | 58 games |
| 2017 | 24 | Kristian Vesalainen | — | |
| 2016 | 2 | Patrik Laine | RW | 537 games |
| 2016 | 18 | Logan Stanley | D | 281 games |
| 2015 | 17 | Kyle ConnorMichigan | LW | 699 games |
| 2015 | 25 | Jack RoslovicMiami (OH) | C | 599 games |
| 2014 | 9 | Nikolaj Ehlers | LW | 760 games |
| 2013 | 13 | Josh Morrissey | D | 743 games |
| 2012 | 9 | Jacob TroubaMichigan | D | 909 games |
| 2011 | 7 | Mark Scheifele | C | 965 games |
| 2010 | 8 | Alexander Burmistrov | C | 348 games |
| 2009 | 4 | Evander Kane | LW | 1,001 games |
| 2008 | 3 | Zach Bogosian | D | 973 games |
| 2008 | 29 | Daultan Leveille | — | |
| 2006 | 12 | Bryan Little | C | 843 games |
| 2005 | 16 | Alex Bourret | — | |
| 2004 | 10 | Boris Valabik | D | 80 games |
| 2003 | 8 | Braydon CoburnNotre Dame | D | 983 games |
| 2002 | 2 | Kari Lehtonen | G | 649 games |
| 2002 | 30 | Jim SlaterMichigan State | C | 584 games |
| 2001 | 1 | Ilya Kovalchuk | LW | 926 games |
| 2000 | 2 | Dany HeatleyWisconsin | LW | 869 games |
| 1999 | 1 | Patrik Stefan | C | 455 games |
How each round turned out
| Round | Picks | Played a game |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 30 | 24 (80%) |
| 2nd | 20 | 11 (55%) |
| 3rd | 22 | 6 (27%) |
| 4th | 29 | 5 (17%) |
| 5th | 29 | 6 (21%) |
| 6th | 28 | 6 (21%) |
| 7th | 30 | 3 (10%) |
| 8th | 9 | 1 (11%) |
| 9th | 7 | 2 (29%) |
Every Jets pick by year
| Round, pick | Overall | Player | Pos | Career |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 draft · 7 picks | ||||
| 1-8 | 8 | Viggo Bjorck | C | 4 games |
| 3-7 | 71 | Samuel Hrenak | G | — |
| 4-20 | 116 | Zach Wooten | — | |
| 5-7 | 135 | Alexandre Taillefer | — | |
| 6-7 | 167 | Landon Hafele | — | |
| 7-7 | 199 | Alofa Tunoa Ta'amu | — | |
| 7-28 | 220 | John Parsons | G | — |
| 2025 draft · 5 picks | ||||
| 1-28 | 28 | Sascha Boumedienne | — | |
| 3-28 | 92 | Owen Martin | C | — |
| 5-28 | 156 | Viktor Klingsell | — | |
| 6-28 | 188 | Edison Engle | — | |
| 7-28 | 220 | Jacob Cloutier | — | |
| 2024 draft · 4 picks | ||||
| 2-5 | 37 | Alfons Freij | D | — |
| 4-12 | 109 | Kevin He | LW | — |
| 5-26 | 155 | Markus Loponen | C | — |
| 6-26 | 187 | Kieron Walton | C | — |
| 2023 draft · 5 picks | ||||
| 1-18 | 18 | Colby Barlow | LW | — |
| 3-18 | 82 | Zach Nehring | RW | — |
| 5-18 | 146 | Jacob Julien | C | — |
| 5-23 | 151 | Thomas Milic | G | 3 games |
| 7-18 | 210 | Connor Levis | RW | — |
| 2022 draft · 7 picks | ||||
| 1-14 | 14 | Rutger McGroarty | RW | 32 games |
| 1-30 | 30 | Brad Lambert | C | 35 games |
| 2-23 | 55 | Elias Salomonsson | D | 32 games |
| 3-12 | 77 | Danil Zhilkin | — | |
| 4-2 | 99 | Garrett Brown | C | — |
| 6-14 | 175 | Fabian Wagner | C | — |
| 7-14 | 207 | Domenic DiVincentiis | G | — |
| 2021 draft · 4 picks | ||||
| 1-18 | 18 | Chaz Lucius | — | |
| 2-18 | 50 | Nikita Chibrikov | RW | 16 games |
| 3-18 | 82 | Dmitry Kuzmin | — | |
| 5-18 | 146 | Dmitri Rashevsky | RW | — |
| 2020 draft · 4 picks | ||||
| 1-10 | 10 | Cole Perfetti | C | 294 games |
| 2-9 | 40 | Daniel Torgersson | — | |
| 5-9 | 133 | Anton Johannesson | — | |
| 6-9 | 164 | Tyrel Bauer | D | 2 games |
| 2019 draft · 5 picks | ||||
| 1-20 | 20 | Ville Heinola | D | 58 games |
| 2-20 | 51 | Simon Lundmark | — | |
| 4-20 | 113 | Henri Nikkanen | — | |
| 5-10 | 134 | Harrison Blaisdell | C | — |
| 5-20 | 144 | Logan Neaton | — | |
| 2018 draft · 6 picks | ||||
| 2-29 | 60 | David Gustafsson | C | 149 games |
| 3-29 | 91 | Nate Smith | — | |
| 5-26 | 150 | Declan Chisholm | D | 128 games |
| 5-29 | 153 | Giovanni Vallati | — | |
| 6-29 | 184 | Jared Moe | — | |
| 7-29 | 215 | Austin Wong | — | |
| 2017 draft · 8 picks | ||||
| 1-24 | 24 | Kristian Vesalainen | — | |
| 2-12 | 43 | Dylan Samberg | D | 286 games |
| 3-12 | 74 | Johnathan Kovacevic | D | 258 games |
| 4-12 | 105 | Santeri Virtanen | — | |
| 5-12 | 136 | Leon Gawanke | — | |
| 6-12 | 167 | Arvid Holm | — | |
| 7-12 | 198 | Skyler McKenzie | — | |
| 7-25 | 211 | Croix Evingson | — | |
| 2016 draft · 6 picks | ||||
| 1-2 | 2 | Patrik Laine | RW | 537 games |
| 1-18 | 18 | Logan Stanley | D | 281 games |
| 3-18 | 79 | Luke Green | — | |
| 4-6 | 97 | Jacob Cederholm | — | |
| 5-6 | 127 | Jordy Stallard | — | |
| 6-6 | 157 | Mikhail Berdin | — | |
| 2015 draft · 8 picks | ||||
| 1-17 | 17 | Kyle Connor | LW | 699 games |
| 1-25 | 25 | Jack Roslovic | C | 599 games |
| 2-17 | 47 | Jansen Harkins | C | 306 games |
| 3-17 | 78 | Erik Foley | — | |
| 4-17 | 108 | Michael Spacek | — | |
| 6-17 | 168 | Mason Appleton | C | 467 games |
| 7-17 | 198 | Sami Niku | — | |
| 7-22 | 203 | Matteo Gennaro | — | |
| 2014 draft · 7 picks | ||||
| 1-9 | 9 | Nikolaj Ehlers | LW | 760 games |
| 3-9 | 69 | Jack Glover | — | |
| 4-9 | 99 | Chase De Leo | — | |
| 4-11 | 101 | Nelson Nogier | — | |
| 5-9 | 129 | CJ Suess | — | |
| 6-14 | 164 | Pavel Kraskovsky | C | — |
| 7-12 | 192 | Matt Ustaski | — | |
| 2013 draft · 10 picks | ||||
| 1-13 | 13 | Josh Morrissey | D | 743 games |
| 2-13 | 43 | Nic Petan | — | |
| 2-29 | 59 | Eric Comrie | G | 102 games |
| 3-23 | 84 | Jimmy Lodge | — | |
| 3-30 | 91 | JC Lipon | — | |
| 4-13 | 104 | Andrew Copp | C | 782 games |
| 4-23 | 114 | Jan Kostalek | — | |
| 5-6 | 127 | Tucker Poolman | — | |
| 7-9 | 190 | Brenden Kichton | — | |
| 7-13 | 194 | Marcus Karlstrom | — | |
| 2012 draft · 5 picks | ||||
| 1-9 | 9 | Jacob Trouba | D | 909 games |
| 3-9 | 70 | Scott Kosmachuk | — | |
| 5-9 | 130 | Connor Hellebuyck | G | 625 games |
| 6-9 | 160 | Ryan Olsen | — | |
| 7-9 | 190 | Jamie Phillips | — | |
| 2011 draft · 7 picks | ||||
| 1-7 | 7 | Mark Scheifele | C | 965 games |
| 3-6 | 67 | Adam Lowry | C | 849 games |
| 3-17 | 78 | Brennan Serville | — | |
| 4-28 | 119 | Zachary Yuen | — | |
| 5-28 | 149 | Austen Brassard | — | |
| 6-6 | 157 | Jason Kasdorf | — | |
| 7-6 | 187 | Aaron Harstad | — | |
| 2010 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 9 picks | ||||
| 1-8 | 8 | Alexander Burmistrov | C | 348 games |
| 3-27 | 87 | Julian Melchiori | — | |
| 4-11 | 101 | Ivan Telegin | — | |
| 5-8 | 128 | Fredrik Pettersson-Wentzel | — | |
| 5-30 | 150 | Yasin Cisse | — | |
| 6-5 | 155 | Kendall McFaull | — | |
| 6-10 | 160 | Tanner Lane | — | |
| 6-19 | 169 | Sebastian Owuya | — | |
| 7-19 | 199 | Peter Stoykewych | — | |
| 2009 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 9 picks | ||||
| 1-4 | 4 | Evander Kane | LW | 1,001 games |
| 2-4 | 34 | Carl Klingberg | LW | 12 games |
| 2-15 | 45 | Jeremy Morin | LW | 82 games |
| 4-26 | 117 | Edward Pasquale | — | |
| 4-29 | 120 | Ben Chiarot | D | 808 games |
| 5-5 | 125 | Cody Sol | — | |
| 6-5 | 155 | Jimmy Bubnick | — | |
| 7-5 | 185 | Levko Koper | — | |
| 7-23 | 203 | Jordan Samuels-Thomas | — | |
| 2008 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 7 picks | ||||
| 1-3 | 3 | Zach Bogosian | D | 973 games |
| 1-29 | 29 | Daultan Leveille | — | |
| 3-3 | 64 | Danick Paquette | — | |
| 4-3 | 94 | Vinny Saponari | — | |
| 5-3 | 124 | Nicklas Lasu | — | |
| 6-3 | 154 | Christopher Carrozzi | — | |
| 7-3 | 184 | Zach Redmond | — | |
| 2007 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 4 picks | ||||
| 3-6 | 67 | Spencer Machacek | RW | 25 games |
| 4-24 | 115 | Niklas Lucenius | — | |
| 6-24 | 175 | John Albert | C | 9 games |
| 7-24 | 205 | Paul Postma | D | 205 games |
| 2006 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 8 picks | ||||
| 1-12 | 12 | Bryan Little | C | 843 games |
| 2-13 | 43 | Riley Holzapfel | — | |
| 3-17 | 80 | Michael Forney | — | |
| 5-12 | 135 | Alex Kangas | — | |
| 6-12 | 165 | Jonas Enlund | — | |
| 7-12 | 195 | Jesse Martin | — | |
| 7-17 | 200 | Arturs Kulda | D | 15 games |
| 7-27 | 210 | Will O'Neill | — | |
| 2005 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 8 picks | ||||
| 1-16 | 16 | Alex Bourret | — | |
| 2-11 | 41 | Ondrej Pavelec | G | 398 games |
| 2-19 | 49 | Chad Denny | — | |
| 2-23 | 53 | Andrew Kozek | — | |
| 4-25 | 116 | Jordan Lavallee-Smotherman | LW | 4 games |
| 5-10 | 135 | Tomas Pospisil | — | |
| 6-25 | 187 | Andrey Zubarev | D | 4 games |
| 7-13 | 207 | Myles Stoesz | — | |
| 2004 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 9 picks | ||||
| 1-10 | 10 | Boris Valabik | D | 80 games |
| 2-10 | 40 | Grant Lewis | RW | 1 games |
| 3-11 | 76 | Scott Lehman | LW | 1 games |
| 4-8 | 106 | Chad Painchaud | — | |
| 5-13 | 142 | Juraj Gracik | — | |
| 6-23 | 186 | Dan Turple | — | |
| 7-11 | 204 | Miikka Tuomainen | — | |
| 8-10 | 237 | Mitch Carefoot | — | |
| 9-12 | 270 | Matthew Siddall | — | |
| 2003 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 9 picks | ||||
| 1-8 | 8 | Braydon Coburn | D | 983 games |
| 4-9 | 110 | James Sharrow | — | |
| 4-15 | 116 | Guillaume Desbiens | LW | 23 games |
| 4-35 | 136 | Michael Vannelli | — | |
| 5-9 | 145 | Brett Sterling | LW | 30 games |
| 6-8 | 175 | Mike Hamilton | — | |
| 7-6 | 203 | Denis Loginov | — | |
| 8-10 | 239 | Toby Enstrom | — | |
| 9-8 | 269 | Rylan Kaip | — | |
| 2002 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 10 picks | ||||
| 1-2 | 2 | Kari Lehtonen | G | 649 games |
| 1-30 | 30 | Jim Slater | C | 584 games |
| 4-20 | 116 | Patrick Dwyer | RW | 416 games |
| 4-28 | 124 | Lane Manson | — | |
| 5-13 | 144 | Paul Flache | — | |
| 6-1 | 167 | Brad Schell | — | |
| 7-1 | 198 | Nathan Oystrick | D | 65 games |
| 8-1 | 230 | Colton Fretter | — | |
| 8-7 | 236 | Tyler Boldt | — | |
| 8-28 | 257 | Pauli Levokari | — | |
| 2001 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 9 picks | ||||
| 1-1 | 1 | Ilya Kovalchuk | LW | 926 games |
| 3-17 | 80 | Michael Garnett | G | 24 games |
| 4-3 | 100 | Brian Sipotz | — | |
| 4-15 | 112 | Milan Gajic | — | |
| 5-4 | 135 | Colin Stuart | LW | 56 games |
| 6-24 | 189 | Pasi Nurminen | G | 125 games |
| 7-3 | 199 | Matt Suderman | — | |
| 7-5 | 201 | Colin Fitzrandolph | — | |
| 9-3 | 262 | Mario Cartelli | — | |
| 2000 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 14 picks | ||||
| 1-2 | 2 | Dany Heatley | LW | 869 games |
| 2-1 | 31 | Ilya Nikulin | — | |
| 2-12 | 42 | Libor Ustrnul | — | |
| 4-11 | 107 | Carl Mallette | — | |
| 4-12 | 108 | Blake Robson | — | |
| 5-17 | 147 | Matt McRae | — | |
| 6-1 | 168 | Zdenek Smid | — | |
| 6-11 | 178 | Jeff Dwyer | — | |
| 6-13 | 180 | Darcy Hordichuk | LW | 542 games |
| 8-1 | 230 | Samu Isosalo | — | |
| 8-13 | 242 | Evan Nielsen | — | |
| 8-15 | 244 | Eric Bowen | — | |
| 9-27 | 288 | Mark McRae | — | |
| 9-29 | 290 | Simon Gamache | LW | 48 games |
| 1999 draft · as the Atlanta Thrashers · 10 picks | ||||
| 1-1 | 1 | Patrik Stefan | C | 455 games |
| 2-2 | 30 | Luke Sellars | D | 1 games |
| 3-2 | 68 | Zdenek Blatny | LW | 25 games |
| 4-2 | 98 | David Kaczowka | — | |
| 5-2 | 128 | Derek MacKenzie | C | 611 games |
| 6-2 | 159 | Yuri Dobryshkin | — | |
| 7-2 | 188 | Stephen Baby | — | |
| 8-2 | 217 | Garnet Exelby | D | 408 games |
| 9-2 | 245 | Tommi Santala | C | 63 games |
| 9-3 | 246 | Ray Dilauro | — | |
Games are the player's career, for any club, with the Hall of Fame; All-Star selections are not on file for this league.